TV series
Sit Down, Shut Up
2001 · 1 season
A lightweight, cheeky workplace sitcom set in a chaotic school, easy to dip into for gentle laughs and staffroom banter.
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Marg Downey, Stephen Curry, Paul Gleeson
- Overview
- Sit Down, Shut Up was a short-lived Australian sitcom broadcast by Network Ten. It ran from 16 February 2001 until 28 June 2001 for a total of 13 episodes. The series followed the staff and students at a dysfunctional fictional high school called Carpen Heights Secondary College, and focused on the life of the teachers in and out of the staff room. Michael Reed, a writer for the show, has claimed that Summer Heights High, a more successful show with similar themes that debuted in 2007, had borrowed certain concepts from Sit Down, Shut Up.
- How it feels
- Satirical, light, absurd and warm. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Work, education, friendship, class
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Marg Downey, Stephen Curry, Paul Gleeson
